33 Quotes About Starving Yourself

Finding meaning and perfection in your physical life is one way that people become encouraged to starve themselves. These quotes about starving yourself captures the truth of the situation and effects of making poor nutritional choices.

“All the tribes tell the same story. They are surrounded on all sides, the game is destroyed or driven away; they are left to starve, and there remains but one thing for them to do – fight while they can.”

“By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.”

“Death by starvation is slow.”

“Dieting: A system of starving yourself to death so you can live a little longer.”

“Each year, several million children either die or suffer irreparable developmental defects because of vitamin A deficiency. Countless others are harmed by malnutrition and starvation. Yet many of these deaths would be preventable if we addressed them head on and used the tools that exist to stop them.”

“How silly people were to eat. They thought they needed food for energy, but they didn’t. Energy came from will, from self-control.”

“How starved they seemed for ordinary kindness”

“I consider the fact that thousands of children die each day from starvation and a lack of medicine a crisis for humanity and a problem we must collectively attempt to solve.”

“I don’t go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.”

“I fear that my mind would starve and that I might find myself in danger if I had no visual information, that it’s chiefly the light, the shapes, the spaces, the colors that I see that compel me to keep moving forward in life and that keep me safe.”

“I hunger for filling in a world that is starved.”

“I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.”

“I wanna survive an avalanche. I wanna be one of those people a dog finds buried under a ton of snow, almost dying of starvation.”

“If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?”

“In times of war, starvation, hunger and injustice, such tragedy can only be put aside if you allow yourself to be uplifted through music, film and dance.”

“Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion.”

“Man’s constitution is so peculiar that his health is purely a negative matter. No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.”

“Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.”

“Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.”

“One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.”

“Starvation and disease are the original weapons of mass destruction. When you burn fields and kill animals, people are left vulnerable.”

“Starving for a high, a place to hang out inside my own head. Starving for touch. Pain, even. A way to feel. I need to feel.”

“The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take.”

“The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.”

“This pain, this terrible seeing-through that is in me now. It wasn’t necessary. It is all pain, and it buys nothing. Gives birth to nothing.”

“To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body.”

“We clean our plates, yet we’re still famished—starving for something other than food.”

“When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.”

“Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?”

“Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?”